Monday, September 14, 2009

However, the party was surprised late Monday to find that the motion also contains a possible poison pill: a reference to tax measures that will go into effect should Parliament approve separate legislation on a free trade agreement with Colombia.

The NDP is adamantly opposed to the trade pact due to Colombia's record of human rights abuses.

Supporting the ways and means motion would not prevent New Democrats from voting later against the trade pact. But the party must decide whether it wants to be seen to be facilitating the trade deal in any way (emphasis mine).

6 comments:

This tells me that the Tories aren't all that against going to the polls this fall.

They're happy to take Layton's support for a while, but they don't feel like playing Paul Martin circa spring 2005 to him -- they don't want to be seen as having their pockets picked, policy-wise, by the Dippers.